From: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iomap: iomap_bmap should check iomap_apply return value
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 08:11:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191108161123.GC6211@magnolia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108055151.GA30144@lst.de>
On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 06:51:51AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 07:36:17AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 09:30:50AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 06:59:27PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > > From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
> > > >
> > > > Check the return value of iomap_apply and return 0 (i.e. error) if it
> > > > didn't succeed.
> > >
> > > And how could we set the bno value if we didn't succeed?
> >
> > The iomap_bmap caller supplies an ->iomap_end that returns an error.
> >
> > Granted there's only one caller and it doesn't, so we could dump this
> > patch and just tell Coverity to shut up, but it's odd that this is the
> > one place where we ignore the return value.
> >
> > OTOH it's bmap which has been broken for ages; the more insane behavior
> > seen in the wild, the better to scare away users. :P
>
> Oh well. I guess the patch is fine, it just isn't really needed as-is.
Thanks for the review. :)
--D
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 2:59 [PATCH] iomap: iomap_bmap should check iomap_apply return value Darrick J. Wong
2019-11-07 8:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-07 15:36 ` Darrick J. Wong
2019-11-08 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-08 16:11 ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
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